DRAFT
Missouri Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Annual Meeting November 19, 2003
President Glenda Kinder called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. at Windermere Retreat Center, Lake of the Ozarks during Missouri Galaxy I. 28 members were present. Glenda made announcements to clarify times of Galaxy sessions and payment procedures.
Jinny Hopp, secretary, reported the minutes have been posted on the web. The minutes were accepted with the following changes: “a profit of $10,000. was made from the Kansas City National meeting”. Motion Susan Mills-Gray, seconded by Kathy Dothage.
Kris Jenkins submitted a report showing a balance of $5,493.07. Carole Bozworth submitted an audit report to accompany the financial report. Carole stated that she suggested Kris use a ledger arrangement to provide details of transactions for Association business. Jinny Hopp made the motion to accept the financial reports, seconded by Sherron Hancock. Motion carried.
Awards and Recognition Committee Report
The Awards and Recognition Committee consisted of one member from each region across the state as listed below:
NW Region Diane Kerns
NE Region Jane Hunter
WC Region Diana Milne
CM Region Open
EC Region Maudie Kelly
SW Region Wilma Jean Lower
SC Region Pat Snodgrass
SE Region Phyllis Flannigan
Of the 37 members in the Missouri Affiliate eligible to submit applications for awards, eight applications were received. Of those applications, the following were the 2003 award recipients.
Professional Achievement Award: Brenda Bell
Distinguished Service Award: Mary Gosche
Communications Award – Newsletter: Maudie Kelly and the LifeTimes newsletter team (see awards program for full list of team members)
Communications Award – Educational Technology: Glenda Kinder (Omega-3 Fatty Acids – The Good Fat – Power Point presentation)
Community Partnership Award: Betty Reinsch and Gateway Grandparents Network
Two award winners were recognized at the national level at the Galaxy meeting. Mary Gosche was honored as our Distinguished Service recipient. Glenda Kinder was recognized as third place awardee at the Regional level for the Communications Award with Educational Technology.
The process of judging applications was handled a little differently this year. Because of budget constraints and in trying to conserve our resources, the Board suggested application materials be shared electronically as much as possible. This created a little bit of confusion as not all materials were submitted electronically. Matching up all the electronic files with hard copies files was not always the best way to handle them, but improvements will be made to the process in the coming year.
The Professional Achievement Award also drew a bit of confusion. The award is specific to Missouri. Its criteria for judging are very outdated. Work is being done to update the award’s wording and criteria to correspond to today’s Extension.
The Awards and Recognition committee had some excellent applications to judge this year. The committee did a great job of judging and critiquing the projects submitted – and found all applications to be exemplary. We hope to see more members submit an application reflecting the outstanding work that is being done statewide.
Respectfully submitted, Janet M. Hackert Awards and Recognition Committee Chair
Professional Development- Sherron Hancock reported that the committee helped plan the Galaxy Conference. Further MEAFCS supported Galaxy with $500.00 to assist with expenses of bringing speakers to Galaxy.
Member Resources- Tammy Roberts reported that the Living Well campaign is underway and that she has kept the membership informed with an update to members within a week of Board Meetings.
Public Affairs-Judy Lueders - no report
By- Laws – Rebecca Travnichek – no work needed at this time.
WebPages – Beth Burke is updating… please send information to her.
President Elect – Janet LaFon will notify Board of meeting dates for 2004.
Audit - See audit note in Financial report section.
President’s Report – Glenda encouraged all members to consider how they might serve both MEAFCS and NEAFCS. She encouraged people to apply as a presenter for the National meetings in Nashville. Finally, she thanked the 2003 Board with small gifts.
New Business-
Election-Jinny Hopp reported that the electronic voting model resulted in a election of Mary Gosche as President Elect and Kris Jenkins as Treasurer for a two year term.
2004 Board Member Introduction
President – Janet LaFon
President Elect – Mary Gosche
Awards & Recognition – Janet Hackert
Professional Development - Sherron Hancock
Member Resources – Wendy Brumbaugh
Public Affairs – Terry Egan
Past President and By-laws – Glenda Kinder
MEAFCS Webmaster – Beth Burke
NEAFCS Treasurer - Rebecca Travnichek
NEAFCS VP Professional Development – Kathy Dothage
Diana Milne used a Pill theme to conduct installation of officers and presented Glenda with a watch to thank her for her service on behalf of the Association.
Being no further items of business from the floor meeting was adjourned 7:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jinny Hopp Secretary